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Topic: Topica? (Read 3200 times)

How the heck do you use this thing? If I get a email from someone that emails the kcfdc@topica.com address can't I just hit reply and send it back to the whole list again? Or do you have to actually go to Topica's website to post messages etc?

You should be able to just reply. I noticed you and Jeff both sending to Topica and the reply coming up completely blank. I think the problem lies elsewhere. I reply to Topica all the time without any problems using a Road Runner account and Mozilla Thunderbird. Perhaps it's the e-mail client you are using. I wish I could be more help to you guys.

Flip

This has been happening for about a month. It has been condensing some posts down in to a small attachment labeled 'no name'. If you check some of those posts that appear blank you should see the attachment, you can download 'no name' and open it with notepad (or any text editor) and you will see the message people were trying to send.

My theory is that Topica has implemented some new filtering technology to stop abuse of their lists by spammers and it has a problem with emails originating from the large web-based email providers such as gmail, yahoo, etc. I will do a little research and see if I can dig any thing up.

-Sean

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Flip

I think I have found the problem... sending emails in html. Email clients let you use html to make your emails look pretty by changing the text color and font size, but that code is sent as an attachment and Topica does not allow attachments, therefore your message is rejected or appears blank. Here is a link to instructions for disabling html in most major clients(outlook, yahoo, aol, etc):http://www.expita.com/nomime.html

Make the change and let's see if that is the problem.

For those who use Gmail- at the top of your "compose" window it says either "rich formatting" or "plain text", you should be using plain text and not have any options for text size, color, etc.